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Educated at Edinburgh Academy (see Appendix III). Qualified as C.A., in 1898, and became a partner with his Uncle G.T. Chiene in Chiene & Tait C.A., (1898 - 1906). He was a good looking young man and in great demand in social circles. he hunted and was a good athlete. He was auditor of The Edinburgh Investment Trust (q.v.) and liquidator of the Old Edinburgh Tramways from whence sprang The Bus Group known as the "SMT" or Scottish Motor Traction. He was the owner of one of the first motor cars in Edinburgh and had the misfortune to be involved n an accident at Musselburgh when a boy was killed. This so shattered him to the extent that he resigned from Chiene & Tait, in 1906, married Mary Fraser from Elgin who had nursed him after the accident and then emigrated to Vancouver, B.C. Canada, where he founded the firm of Buttar & Chiene C.A. He was a moving force in setting up an accounting society and inaugurating exams, which ultimately became part of the C.A.'s of Canada. He also had a big hand in the commencement of golf, rugby and cricket in Vancouver. Around 1908 he persuaded his brother and sisters (among others) to invest in a real estate project by which he had acquired a large block of land. The choice of land was sound enough. The University of Vancouver now stands on it - but the finances were so much of a shoe string nature that the advent of 1914 - 18 war resulted in foreclosure for non-payment of taxes and all the equity was "wiped out". He paid a return visit to the U.K., around 1910, when he was re-united with his family for the last time and I paid him and Mary a visit in 1949, when I was on a business trip. He was also visited by Bruce Chiene (q.v.) during the last war and his widow was visited by Walter Lyon Playfair Chiene (q.v.) who said she was an old and sick woman worried about her money. This interested me as hall left £70,000 to his widows when he died and they had no issue.

A story was told that John Schott Tait C.A., then senior partner of Chiene & Tail C.A., and owner of Bavelaw Estate outside Edinburgh, died childless in 1910 and left the estate to Hall Chiene on the condition he returned to Edinburgh to resume senior partner of Chiene & Tait. This was of no avail. Bavelaw is a nice place and I fish there every year!! His sister, Fanny, as shown in the family tree died very young.